Charlotte Brontë’s $1.25m ‘little book’ of 10 poems returns home

‘Saving Charlotte Brontë’s little book is a giant gain for Britain,’ said the chair of the literary charity that raised the money to buy it. Photograph: images courtesy of James Cummins Bookseller

A tiny book, smaller than a playing card and containing 10 tantalisingly unpublished poems, is returning home to the West Yorkshire parsonage where it was lovingly written in 1829 by the 13-year-old Charlotte Brontë.

Thought lost, it was bought in New York for $1.25m (£1m) with Haworth in mind and given it measures just 10cm by 6cm, it is probably, centimetre for centimetre, the most valuable literary manuscript ever sold.